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Watch artist Christo talk about the 1995 piece Wrapped Reichstag. Together with artist Jeanne-Claude, the German landmark was covered with 100,000 square metres of billowing silver-grey fabric, tied by over fifteen kilometres of blue ropes – for two weeks only

Watch this short film from 1976 directed by John Smith. In east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects

Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Art and Life, discusses Martin’s formative experiences, the development of her work, and the range of lively non-mainstream art communities in which she lived

‘As you know there is nothing more inspiring to me than the act of creation…there must be magic in this country around here.’ We delve into the Tate Archive and discover Barbara Hepworth’s letters written from her studio in St Ives

‘The studio has become a museum….The act of collecting is a conceptual art form.’ Watch Peter Blake in his London studio as he begins work on a new collage piece and talks about his act of collecting and which artists influenced his making

‘Into my mind came a grid, with lines going this way and lines going that way and they were innocent.’ Watch rare archive footage of Agnes Martin in her studio in New Mexico and art dealer Arne Glimcher remember her philosophical ideas about her work

Watch Gustav Metzger reflect on his long and influential career where he developed the concept of auto-destructive art, born out of his traumatic experience of the Holocaust. His work is on display inBP Spotlight: Gustav Metzger: towards auto-destructive art 1950–1962

Explore Victorian sculpture through the power of touch. We follow David Johnson who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at fifteen, trace his way around selected artworks in Sculpture Victorious, drawing on his own visual recollection to imagine the scene before him

Watch our visit to Woodhorn Museum for their Art Gala Day hosted by The Mindfuls, a group of young people established to explore and celebrate the ARTISTROOMS exhibition of text based words by American artist Lawrence Weiner

For two days only 90 dancers and choreographers led by Boris Charmatz will take over Tate Modern. On the eve of this temporary transformation we asked Boris abouthis vision and how the audience will participate in this ‘live exhibition’

‘You can sense a full life lived by the applying of paint to canvas, and that’s something you can really learn from as a writer.’ Watch Colm Tóibín’s powerful responce to the melancholy, fleshy figures painted by Marlene Dumas

‘Her work is as relevant now, as it was when it forst appeared’. TateShots talk to Ann Gallagher, Director of Collections at Tate Britain, about YBA Sarah Lucas, who is representing Britain in the 2015 Venice Biennale

Watch our highlights of the restaging of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s performance piece Tatlin’s Whisper #6, a performance where members of the public speak for a minute. The work was restaged in an act of solidarity and support for Bruguera and artists all over the world persecuted for freedom of expression

Head of Displays Matthew Gale takes us through Making Traces, an entire new wing of collection displays from idea to installation. The display includes Rothko’s nine Seagram murals, the ‘must-see of Tate Modern’

Watch Sir Peter Blake discuss his new artwork Everybody Razzle Dazzle, a pop inspired dazzle design currently decorating the Mersey commuter ferry Snowdrop. It is his largest scale commission to date and will give visitors to Liverpool an opportunity to step on board a floating art-work

Tracey Emin’s My Bed returns to Tate Britain after 15 years. In this interview, Emin talks about the dark emotional place the work emerged from and the media’s controversial reaction to the piece in 1999

In our second TateShots with Marlene Dumas we spotlight her Great Men series, a group of portraits made in response to Russia’s anti-gay legislation. Dumas talks about capturing the essence and personality of each subject through a process of drafting and re-drawing

Charlie Phillips, the first photographer to document the Caribbean and West Indian immigrant communities in 1960s Notting Hill, reflects on his career, and finds much in common with Salt and Silver’s pioneering photographers and the work they created over 160 years ago

‘This was the first work which set me on the path of thinking of the body as a found object.’ Antony Gormley talks to TateShots about Bed, currently on display at Tate Britain as part of the BP Walk through British Art

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin talk to TateShots about their performative work in Conflict, Time, Photography which addresses the act a pushing ‘a young person through the mechanism of the military’

In 1994 Marlene Dumas began Rejects – a selection of portraits previously rejected from other series of her work. She talks to TateShots about the playfulness and tension within these works and why they are significant to the exhibition at Tate Modern

In the summer of 1991, Sophie Ristelhueber travelled to Kuwait and became obsessed by the traces the Gulf war left in the desert. Through photography she documents ‘the wounds that we inflict on earth’ through war

Snail juice, meteor dust and potatoes…just some of the unusual materials explored by artist Sigmar Polke. Curator Mark Godfrey explains why he thinks Polke is ‘one of the most exciting and experimental artists of the last 50 years’

‘Being nominated for the prize has given me great heart. The opinions of the jury mean a great deal to me.’ Watch the excitememt of the announcement of the Turner Prize awards night and hear from Duncan Campbell himself

‘I’m attracted by certain histories or certain stories’, 2014 Turner Prize nominee Duncan Campbell talks to TateShots about his work It for Others, a form of video essay which explores the construction of history and how archives are not a ‘transparent window into reality’

For the Tate Britain Commission 2013, Simon Starling has created a film called Phantom Ride which explores the history of the Duveen Galleries and revisits some of the artworks which have been installed there